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Sir William Brown correspondence to Abbott Lawrence
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0717
Abstract
Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet DL (1784–1864) was a British merchant and banker, founder of the banking-house of Brown, Shipley & Co. and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons. He sailed with his father and mother for the United States of America, and at Baltimore, Maryland, where his father continued the linen trade in which he had been engaged in Ireland, received in the counting-house his commercial education. He was known for his philalanthropy, particularly in...
Dates:
1845-1846
Found in:
Special Collections
Stefan Einarsson papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0018
Abstract
Stefan Einarsson (born 1897) was a professor of Scandinavian Philology at Johns Hopkins University. The collection consists of professional correspondence that spans the years 1942 to 1959.
Dates:
1942-1959
Found in:
Special Collections
The John Barth collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0499
Abstract
The collection includes the papers of John Barth (born 1930), American novelist and short-story writer, who is best-known for his contributions to postmodern literature. The collection spans the years 1930 to 2014 and consists of manuscripts, typescripts, and galley proofs of Barth’s writings; correspondence; reviews; and other professional papers.
Dates:
1930 - 2014
Found in:
Special Collections
Thomas family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0763
Abstract
Included is a large group of letters and ephemera from the Thomas family, a family with deep Maryland roots known for its ancestors, politicians John Hanson and John Hanson Thomas. John Hanson (1715-1783) was the first elected President of the United States in Congress Assembled, the first to serve a one-year term under the provisions of the Articles of Confederation. Dr. John Hanson Thomas (1813-1881) was a renowned Maryland legislator arrested during the Civil War for voting for Secession,...
Dates:
1835 - 1976
Found in:
Special Collections
Thomas Gresham Machen papers
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: MS-0036
Abstract
Thomas Gresham Machen (born 1886) was an architect and book collector. The collection consists of clippings of Baltimore newspapers from 1859, correspondence from 1909 and 1945 relating to rare books, and an undated biographical sketch of Maryland colonial settler, Margaret Brent.
Dates:
1859, 1909, 1945, undated
Found in:
Special Collections
William Bullock Clark papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0098
Abstract
William Bullock Clark was an American geologist born in Brattleboro, Vermont on December 15, 1860. The papers consist of correspondence, invoices, and a scrapbook spanning 1888-1925.
Dates:
1888-1925
Found in:
Special Collections
William H. McClain papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0619
Abstract
William H. McClain was born in Cleveland, OH in 1917 and died in 1994. McClain joined the Department of German at Johns Hopkins University in 1953 and retired in 1982, serving as Professor Emeritus until the end of his life. He served as chairman of the Department of German from 1972 to 1979, president of the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and also chaired during its final years the Humanities Group (1968-70), the last instrument of interdepartmental self-government among the Hopkins...
Dates:
1950s-1994; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1994
Found in:
Special Collections
William Hand Browne collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0011
Scope and Contents
The collection of author and English professor, William Hand Browne, includes correspondence, notebooks, a scrapbook, pencil sketches, manuscript poems, and some published writings in Modern Language Notes, The Nation, and Sewanee Review. Numerous newspaper clippings are also included. In addition, there is an album of poetry and other writings by Browne's friend, John Banister Tabb. A few items relate to other family members, Lucy Hand Browne and Owens Hand Browne. William Hand Browne was...
Dates:
1842-1973
Found in:
Special Collections
William S. Wilson papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0668
Abstract
William S. Wilson (1932-), born in Baltimore, 1932, was graduated with Honors in Philosophy of Science from the University of Virginia, then went on to Yale University where he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts art-writer’s grant and Warhol Foundation Grant, 2012, for a book about the life and art of Ray Johnson. Wilson's mother was May Wilson (1905-1986), pioneer of the feminist and mail art movement, best known for her...
Dates:
1963 - 2009
Found in:
Special Collections
William Stone Grauer papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0191
Abstract
William Stone Grauer (born 1915) entered the freshman class at Hopkins in 1932. The papers span the period 1926 through 1940 but the bulk revolve around his freshman and sophomore years, 1932-1934. The papers are largely the correspondence among William and his parents Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lee Grauer and his sister Betty Alice Grauer.
Dates:
1926 - 1940
Found in:
Special Collections
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